Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology / Antipsychotics

This volume summarizes advances in the understanding and development of new antipsychotic drugs from a variety of perspectives. It offers a summary of the characteristics that distinguish typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs, and the ways that these should be used in patients.

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This volume summarizes advances in the understanding and development of new antipsychotic drugs from a variety of perspectives. Innovations in molecular biology and modelling offer an array of neuroreceptor target for drug treatment. Investigations in neurophysiology, neurochemistry and behavioural pharmacology have produced an understanding of antipsychotic drug action that goes beyond the original dopamine hypothesis. Finally, this volume offers a summary of the characteristics that distinguish typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs, and the ways that these should be used in patients with schizophrenia and other mental disorders.